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Similarities to certain attachment therapy practices have also provoked controversy. It has been suggested that the therapy seems to use age regression and holding methods-options of attachment therapy not congruent with attachment idea. Becker-Weidman cites Daniel Hughes's 1997 book "Facilitating Developmental Attachment", which contains sections on the use of age regression and holding therapy, as a source document for dyadic developmental psychotherapy. The advocacy group Advocates for Childr...
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Candace Newmaker, 2000; a ten-year-old adopted lady who was killed by asphyxiation during a rebirthing session used as a part of a two-week attachment therapy "intensive". The two attachment therapists, Connell Watkins (formerly of The Attachment Middle, Evergreen) and Julie Ponder had been every sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for his or her half in the therapy during which Candace was wrapped in blankets and required to wrestle to be reborn, towards the load of a number of adults. Her inabi...
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